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Re: Examining Swap



According to Thomas,
> Hello there.
> 
> 
> My debian server uses max 50% of its 1 GB ram while im looking at it, 
> also under stress conditions. Still, if it is running for a few days, 
> there are about 100 MB swapspace used.
> 
> I dont know what is written into the swapfile.
> Now i ask myself, how i can find out whats inside of the swapfile, and 
> most important, why.
> 
> Is there a way to examine that?
> Is there a way to move the contents of the swapfile back into the (free) 
> mem manually?

Sounds to me you have a memory leak.

top has option to sort by memory used (capital M), and ps
can give you memory used, both physical and total (see man
ps).



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